Ernst Petzholtz

The bridge gate of the Glienicke hunting lodge , built in 1869 by Friedrich Ernst Petzholtz

Friedrich Ernst Petzholtz (born May 11, 1839 in Potsdam; † February 15, 1904 in Potsdam) was a court builder and court mason in Potsdam .

Life

Ernst Petzholtz, born in Potsdam on May 11, 1839, was the only son from his father's first marriage, the court architect August Ernst Petzholtz with Friederike Gottschling (1814–1839).

Little is known about his private life. He made a name for himself with the construction of over 60 villas and rental houses, which have helped shape the image of Potsdam's suburbs since the late 1860s. He also carried out numerous buildings in the vicinity of his hometown and in Berlin. Most recently he owned the largest construction business in Potsdam. As a self-employed entrepreneur, Ernst Petzholtz can be compared to the master builder and Schinkel student Friedrich Hitzig , who with his construction office was one of the most successful in Berlin thirty years earlier.

Although his main activity was the planning and execution of private residential buildings, he also received court orders from Carl Prince of Prussia in his younger years . After the deaths of Ferdinand von Arnim in 1866 and his father in 1868, he took over as their successor in Glienicke, the management of the construction work in the palace complex. In the 1860s, at the latest in 1867, he passed the master builder examination at the Royal Building Academy in Berlin and received the coveted title of court builder and court mason through his work in Glienicke. In this capacity, he initially continued the company of the late father together with his stepbrother Friedrich, known as Fritz, operating as the Petzholtz brothers . In this merger, Ernst, as the "leading head", mainly took on the design planning and construction work, while Fritz was responsible for the commercial part. In 1869 he married Martha Gillmeier (1849–1898), and this connection resulted in six children.

The company flourished in the 1870s. He received numerous orders from the Berlin banker Heinrich Quistorp , who had villas in Potsdam and the Alsen colony on Wannsee built next to the Germania water tower in Berlin-Westend . During this time, Ernst Petzholtz was the only academically trained master builder in Potsdam, along with Reinhold Persius , the son of the "King's architect", Ludwig Persius , who died in 1845 . After Persius was transferred to Berlin as court building officer in 1876, there were no longer any potential competitors for Ernst Petzholtz in the private construction sector. The Petzholtz brothers parted ways by the end of the 1870s. Fritz emigrated to America, Ernst continued the business under his own name. A construction slowdown in the 1880s was followed by an upswing in the 1890s, when the company employed over 200 journeymen, apprentices and workers.

In the 1880s Ernst Petzholtz was chairman of the Potsdamer Bauverein. In 1896 he held the title of court architect and court mason Potsdam, court sworn expert and in 1899 court architect and court mason, sworn building expert and property taxator for the Potsdam district court .

Ernst Petzholtz died on February 15, 1904. His grave in the old cemetery in Potsdam no longer exists. The company was continued by his eldest son Ernst (Dr. phil., 1870–1952), who had already started his father's construction business in the mid-1890s.

buildings

Construction work for the royal court

1868-1870	Execution of the Loggia Alexandra on the Böttcherberg in Klein Glienicke
1869	Bridge gate at the Glienicke hunting lodge near the Glienicke bridge
1870	Carlsturm on the Carlsberg near Baumgartenbrück ( Geltow )
1871/72	Increase in the Remisenturm at Glienicke Palace
1872	Reconstruction of the Glienicke hunting lodge

Potsdam private buildings (selection)

Villa Henckel

Villa Schwengberg

Mangerstrasse 19, Potsdam

1861	Residential house, Gutenbergstraße 30 (around 1736 baroque type house, new building in 1845, heightened and changed in 1861 according to design and execution by Petzholtz)
1867/68	Villa Lehmann , Puschkinallee 9
1868/69	Villa Finckenstein , Grosse Weinmeisterstr. 61 (conversion)
1868-1870	Villa Henckel , Grosse Weinmeisterstr. 43 (construction work)
between 1870 and 1875	Villa Seherr-Thoss, Am Neuen Garten 8
between 1870 and 1879	Villa Schwengberg, Am Neuen Garten 7
1872/73	Villa Quistorp (also Villa Friedrichs), Hegelallee 1
1873	Small rental houses, Hegelalle 4 and 5 (No. 5, executed in 1879)
1873/74	Residential house, Menzelstr. 12
1875/76	Small rental house, Helene-Lange-Str. 1
1875/76	Residential house, Am Neuen Garten 6
1875/76	Apartment building Wollner, rental apartment building, Otto-Nagel-Str. 9
1887/88	Villa Koch, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 58
1888/89	Apartment building, Klara-Zetkin-Str. 16
1897/98	"Yellow Villa", Alleestr. 6 A
1892-1902	Rental houses, Mangerstr. 14 / 14a, 19, 23-27
1897/98	Villa, Mangerstr. 32
1892/93	Villa Petzholtz-von Schleinitz, Mangerstr. 40 (demolished in 1935)
1893/94	Villa Schneider, Ludwig-Richter-Str. 32
1894/95	Villa Petzholtz-von Hohenau, Menzelstr. 11
1899	Villa ( Swiss style ), Berliner Strasse 124 a
1901/02	Apartment building, Mangerstraße 19

Berlin buildings (selection)

Villa Wild, 1875

from 1872	on behalf of the Berlin banker Quistorp the Germaniaturm in Berlin-Westend on Eschen- und Platanenallee (blown up in 1892)
1873	Quistorpsche Villa, Conradstr. 15, Berlin (Alsen villa colony)
1875	Villa Wild, Am Sandwerder 1, Berlin-Wannsee (today the seat of the literary magazine " Die Berliner Literaturkritik " )
1877	Villa Elsner, Berlin

literature

• Ulrike Bröcker: The Potsdam suburbs 1861-1900. From the tower villa to the apartment building. 2nd ed. Wernersche, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-208-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Petzholtz  - Collection of Images